BSS, Rangpur :
Speakers at a workshop here have demanded strict implementation of the anti-adulteration laws for ensuring exemplary punishments to those responsible for mixing chemicals with foods to save human lives.
Taraganj upazila administration organised the workshop on ‘Food adulteration, public health, morality, implementation of anti-adulteration laws and creating social awareness’ at its auditorium under the Upazila Governance Project (UzGP) on Wednesday.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (Education & ICT) and Acting Deputy Director (Local Government) Dr ATM Mahbub-Ul Karim attended the workshop as the chief guest with Taraganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer Golam Mowla in the chair.
Taraganj upazila vice-chairman Ataur Rahman, Officer-in-Charge of Taraganj Thana Taposh Sarker, Upazila Health and family Planning Officer Dr Mohammad Shahjahan and District Facilitator of UzGP Jahangir Alam, addressed as the special guests.
Principal of Taraganj BM Vocational College Abdul Hamid, Upazila Project Implementation officer Refaul Azam, Upazila Agriculture Officer Rezaul Karim, Upazila Fisheries Officer Dipa Rani Biswas and union parishad chairmen also spoke.
Upazila level government officials, employees, representatives of different business, sociocultural, political and professional organisations, NGOs, women and human rights activists, adolescents, civil society members, teachers, students and elite participated.
The speakers expressed concerns on flooding of the local markets with adulterated and chemical poison-mixed baby foods, vegetables, fish, meat, fruits, hotel and packed foods, adulterated and date expired lifesaving medicines and other foodstuffs.
The extent of deadly hepatitis, kidney, heart and liver diseases, paralysis, cancer, pancreas ailments and other diseases have been increasing alarmingly creating threat to the public health even after many years of consuming adulterated foods, they said.
They demanded for strict implementation of the consumers’ rights act and other related laws, anti-adulteration drives round the year, inclusion of anti-adulteration curriculum and complete ban on selling of adulterated foods mixed with poisonous chemicals.
Speakers at a workshop here have demanded strict implementation of the anti-adulteration laws for ensuring exemplary punishments to those responsible for mixing chemicals with foods to save human lives.
Taraganj upazila administration organised the workshop on ‘Food adulteration, public health, morality, implementation of anti-adulteration laws and creating social awareness’ at its auditorium under the Upazila Governance Project (UzGP) on Wednesday.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (Education & ICT) and Acting Deputy Director (Local Government) Dr ATM Mahbub-Ul Karim attended the workshop as the chief guest with Taraganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer Golam Mowla in the chair.
Taraganj upazila vice-chairman Ataur Rahman, Officer-in-Charge of Taraganj Thana Taposh Sarker, Upazila Health and family Planning Officer Dr Mohammad Shahjahan and District Facilitator of UzGP Jahangir Alam, addressed as the special guests.
Principal of Taraganj BM Vocational College Abdul Hamid, Upazila Project Implementation officer Refaul Azam, Upazila Agriculture Officer Rezaul Karim, Upazila Fisheries Officer Dipa Rani Biswas and union parishad chairmen also spoke.
Upazila level government officials, employees, representatives of different business, sociocultural, political and professional organisations, NGOs, women and human rights activists, adolescents, civil society members, teachers, students and elite participated.
The speakers expressed concerns on flooding of the local markets with adulterated and chemical poison-mixed baby foods, vegetables, fish, meat, fruits, hotel and packed foods, adulterated and date expired lifesaving medicines and other foodstuffs.
The extent of deadly hepatitis, kidney, heart and liver diseases, paralysis, cancer, pancreas ailments and other diseases have been increasing alarmingly creating threat to the public health even after many years of consuming adulterated foods, they said.
They demanded for strict implementation of the consumers’ rights act and other related laws, anti-adulteration drives round the year, inclusion of anti-adulteration curriculum and complete ban on selling of adulterated foods mixed with poisonous chemicals.
